Fetal positions

I’m starting to think that maybe I’m wasting time on Pennsylvania’s own Rick Santorum. The GOP’s resident religious scold and czar of women’s reproductive duties will not become president, and the odds are stacked heavily against him even becoming the party’s nominee. Even it realizes it’s done for 2012 if such an event occurs.

Still, his holiness is just so much darn fun to lampoon.

Various polls showing Saint Rick leading the party’s preferred candidate, Mitt Romney, must be giving the GOP fits. Factor in a probable Santorum win in the Michigan primary, and who can blame the party of Lincoln for a moment of panic?

Has anyone noticed how much time & attention the Media focuses on Mr. Family Values / Let’s Bomb-Iran, and condemns the very rational viewpoints of Ron Paul (R., Tx) which are attracting hordes of young peoples’ support and Veterans who in uniform spoke in support of the Congressman in Washington D.C. this week. ? (Note: Anymore, my favorite saying is that a Free Press does not exist until dis-attaching from crooked & Big-Monied umbilical cords)

To Jay Franklin: Yesterday’s Blog “big-dog” comment was funny, true, and put things straight. Yours was a form of postive national service.

“I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city [Washington DC] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”

“Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer, Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressmen [sic]. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”

“Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq.”

“People often say that what this country needs is for people in Washington to stop fighting and just get the job done. To achieve that, we need more ‘bipartisanship.’ I don’t agree…When the ideas of both parties are bad, there is really only one hope: that they will continue fighting and not pass any new legislation.”

“I think this [border]fence business is designed and may well be used against us and keep us in. In economic turmoil, the people want to leave with their capital. And there’s capital controls and there’s people control. So, every time you think of the fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.”

Tess208

It is difficult to derive the meaning of the rant du jour Mr. Cole had in mind with this morning’s cartoon. He seems to be trying to say that the Republican Party is reduced to a fetal position due to Sen. Santorum’s various platforms. Maybe he is trying to convey that the poor elephant has found himself in this condition because of Santorum’s rise to front runner status via the issues he espouses. Mr. Cole, would not this cartoon be more comprehendible if it were the poor donkey who was the withering mess on the floor? Without changing one other thing, it would then make sense.
It seems to me that the Republicans are embracing Mr. Santorum based on his beliefs-not so much because they are 100% with him, but because the issues mentioned seem to be making him the front runner. Now, this presents the very politically correct and secular loving donkey with a very stubborn problem. You see, the donkey, unlike the resigned elephant, can easily be reduced to mush by this information. This is due to the fact that the donkey does not even remember a time when the elephant’s tenants were the backbone of the country. The thought that someone who is pro-life, pro-religion, pro-family, and pro-constitution just may be the front-runner does not bode well for a donkey platform; a platform comprised of zealots who embrace “anything abortion” (sex of the child, the inconvenience of having a “live birth” after an abortion, blue eyes instead of brown, enter any other reason here________), to the pain of having to re-define the First Amendment to the “religious,” and the time it takes to convince them that a child born as a result of an abortion must be murdered in order that “women’s rights” are bolstered-should all really be the catalyst for the poor donkey’s breakdown. The donkey may be stubborn, but an elephant never forgets.

Paul Chrastina

I was never a fan of Santorum and I hope the republicans will open their eyes and recognize a more divisive candidate than the Yo-Yo that we presently have masquerading as the President of the United States.
Many of Santorum’s views are compatible with mine, but he is a dogmatic politician who will do whatever it takes to get back on the public dole.

His “religious convictions” should be an embarrasment to a society that takes some pride in its diversity, but when he STUPIDLY remarks,
“we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles,it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it” , he does little to enhance his stature.
When he is defended by statements like,”well, it’s all right—He was speaking to a Catholic gathering”, I wonder if “the Brotherhood of Man ” is a myth ?

Jim Evans

Tess, I’m afraid I disagree. I think the toon makes absolute sense. The leadership of the Republican party probably believes – as I do – that in an election between Barack Obama and Rick Santorum, their man would in all likelihood lose. Oh, sure, maybe conservative Republicans would vote for him – but he would lose liberal Republicans, independents, Democrats, feminists, and many young people who would probably conclude that his beliefs are out of step with the times.

The only candidate that the Republican party leadership wants to see nominated is one who can beat Barack Obama. I don’t think Rick Santorum has a chance of doing that. I disagree that the donkey would be reduced to mush by having him get the nomination – rather, I believe that the donkey would be partying in the corridors of its headquarters, knowing that more conservative members of the Elephant party chose to run a very beatable candidate.

Charles Orloski

Jim:

I really appreciate your anti-Schindler’s List of Ron Paul quotes, which I wish you had made reference as to where they came from & when (?) but giving it some more thought, I conclude such lapse is just another ill-sympton of our dangerous times, executed frequently in America’s “prestige” Press especially when they want to gin-up wars. HA! As I do not give any Media examples, you have a friend in me, Jim.

One thing I depend upon Ron Paul for is his not being like a dog jerked along with a Diamond leash, and being taught to obey corrupted masters. If that someday becomes the case with him, Jim, then shame on me, I am the fool. Pax, not super-PACS.

Note, I agree Cole’s ‘Toon does make sense but John forgot to attach the umbilical cord’s point-of-origin to the fetal GOP.

Orloski, an offensive rebound

Jim:
Not surprised, but I am disappointed you have yet to respond. Maybe you have other things to do in contrast to me?

I thought for sure Paul Chrastina would have helped me by digging-up some old Obama doozie-quotes from his college years but I understand that kind of stuff is scarce.

Paul Chrastina

Obama’s college years ???
The stories I could tell.
“Barry” and I used to pal around together doing all the things that crazy college kids do, but unfortunately, I’m unable to reveal any of our shenanigans.
“They” are holding my youngest grandchild hostage (Camp David–? ) until after the election in November.
Until then, my lips are sealed……